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Ukrainian National Guard soldiers fire a recoilless cannon during combat training at a military training ground in northern Ukraine on Friday, Nov. 3, 2023.

A Ukrainian missile strike on a shipyard in Crimea damages a Russian ship

8:53am November 05, 2023

by The Associated Press

The Ukrainian air force says one of Russia's most modern ships was at the shipyard but doesn't say if that ship was hit. Russia acknowledges a vessel was hit, but doesn't say which kind.

This photo released by Ostorozhno Novosti on Monday, July 17, 2023, reportedly shows damaged parts of an automobile link of the Crimean Bridge connecting Russian mainland and Crimean peninsula over the Kerch Strait not far from Kerch, Crimea.

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Explosions disrupt traffic on a key bridge from Crimea to Russia's mainland

8:14am July 17, 2023

by Charles Maynes

Traffic on a key bridge connecting Crimea to Russia's mainland was disrupted Monday after one of its sections was blown up in what Russian officials said was a Ukrainian attack that killed two.

China's leader Xi Jinping claps as he listens to Russian President Vladimir Putin via a video link, from the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Dec. 2, 2019. Xi will meet Putin this week on a visit to Moscow.

Latest on Ukraine: Xi Jinping visits Moscow to meet Putin (March 20)

9:36am March 20, 2023

by NPR Staff

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to the media after a summit in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, on June 30, 2022. Putin traveled to Crimea to mark the ninth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula's annexation from Ukraine on Saturday.

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Putin visits Crimea to mark the anniversary of its annexation from Ukraine

11:33am March 18, 2023

by The Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to the Black Sea peninsula to mark the ninth anniversary of its annexation from Ukraine. Russia's move in 2014 was denounced as illegal by most of the world.

Black smoke billows from a fire on the Kerch bridge that links Crimea to Russia after an explosion on Saturday.

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After the Crimean bridge attack, there are plenty of theories but few real answers

3:27pm October 13, 2022

by Julian Hayda

Theories abound about who is responsible for the attack and how they did it. On Wednesday, Russia arrested eight men alleged to have set off a truck bomb. Ukraine says Russia planned the attack.

Workers restore the railway tracks Sunday on the Kerch bridge that links Crimea to Russia, a day after it was damaged by a blast. Officials said car and train traffic had resumed over the bridge, with Moscow's transport ministry saying Sunday that long-distance passenger trains from Crimea to Russia were "moving according to the standard schedule."

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Russia arrests 8 people for the blast on a Crimea bridge as Ukraine denies involvement

11:37am October 12, 2022

Security agents arrested five Russians, two Ukrainians and an Armenian as suspects in the explosion, which disabled a critical link between Russia and the Ukrainian peninsula it annexed in 2014.

A helicopter drops water to stop fire on Crimean Bridge connecting the Russian mainland and Crimean peninsula over the Kerch Strait on Saturday.

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First, a bridge strategic to Russia was attacked — then came the Ukrainian memes

10:45am October 09, 2022

by Ashley Westerman

Ukrainians celebrated the Saturday attack on a key bridge connecting the Crimean peninsula to mainland Russia by flooding social media with memes, which have become a staple of the conflict.

Ukrainians visit an avenue where destroyed Russian military hardware is displayed in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Saturday.

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Russia-Ukraine war: A weekly recap and look ahead (Aug. 22)

12:19pm August 22, 2022

by NPR Staff

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Smoke rises after explosions were heard from the direction of a Russian military airbase near Novofedorivka, Crimea, in this still image obtained by Reuters Tuesday.

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Who was behind the explosions in Crimea? Ukraine and Russia aren't saying

6:14pm August 12, 2022

by Julian Hayda

Several days after Ukraine said nine planes were destroyed at a Russian air base in Crimea, nobody has publicly claimed responsibility for it — but speculation abounds.

The Russian Black Sea naval headquarters at Sevastopol, Crimea, in 2008. In the background on the right is a Russian destroyer. The Russian tall ship Padalla (with white sails) is in the center. In the foreground is the Monument to Scuttled Ships, marking

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How Russia's current war in Ukraine echoes its Crimean War of the 1850s

8:32am July 13, 2022

by Greg Myre

Russia had a more powerful army. It didn't think the West would intervene. The invasion was poorly planned. We're not talking about Russia's current war, but about Russia's Crimean War in the 1850s.

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